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Ecologists are proposing to create general ecological models so they can simulate nature rather than study it..
General Circulation Models (GCM), which simulate the physics and chemistry of Earth’s land, oceans and atmosphere, are an essential component of the pseudoscience behind the global warming scam. Using large, complex computer programs doing indecipherable things while burning up exa-cycles of supercomputer time allows climate scientists to lay down a fake science smokescreen few can penetrate. Naturally, other scientists, with lower funding, are envious of climate modelers and their play toys, including ecologists. In an impassioned plea published in Nature, a group of environmental scientists argue that it is high time that they get to build models of their own. General Ecosystem Models (GEMs) could radically improve understanding of the biosphere and inform policy decisions about biodiversity and conservation they claim. But are they really aware of what they are asking for?
In a commentary piece, “Ecosystems: Time to model all life on Earth,” Drew Purves, of the Environmental Science Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues have proposed that global models of Earth’s ecosystem, analogous to global climate models, be developed to place environmental science on an even footing with climate science. The lack of such GEM programs causes the authors to opine:
Source: theresilientearth.com
2013-01-22 13:33:01
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